Fewer than 500,000 expected to vote in primary for Ted Kennedy’s seat. Coakley leads Capuano by double digits. Is it a bad sign for Democratic enthusiasm that you probably didn’t even remember this was happening today? Gallup: Obama hits new approval low, at 47 percent. Hey, how about we overhaul the whole system that got us here: “New diagnoses for all types of cancer combined in the U.S. fell on average almost 1% per year from 1999 to 2006. Cancer deaths decreased 1.6% a year from 2001 to 2006. Overall cancer rates continue to be higher for men than for women, but men experienced the greatest declines in new cases and deaths.” McGurn’s on Obama’s umpteenth important address on the economy: “Some mistakes are so big that only smart people are tempted to make them. One is the faith in Big Government.” “Your pictures are worthless,” the soldier shouted, standing on a pile of chunks of cement. “They are only useful for our enemies to laugh at us.” People are now objecting, in national newspaper op-eds, to the looks of the women Tiger chose to cheat with: “Woods appears to have bought into an ‘official’ standard of beauty that is so conventional as to be almost oppressive.” Door open to Palin third-party run? “If the Republican party gets back to that [conservative] base, I think our party is going to be stronger and there’s not going to be a need for a third party, but I’ll play that by ear in these coming months, coming years.” “The East Anglia e-mails reveal a priesthood becoming more and more hysterical as their certainty evaporates. Like all orthodoxies under duress, they are making war on heresy. It’s not illegal. But it’s not science.” Liberals react to Clinton and Gates on the morning shows, inexplicably surprised to find Obama might not have meant what he said.
